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<p>Controversial billionaire property developer Donald Trump faces a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority over a 'sick' advert.</p>
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<p>Controversial billionaire property developer Donald Trump faces a complaint with the Advertising Standards Authority over a 'sick' advert.</p>
<p>If successful, the action would result in a second reprimand for Mr Trump in relation to his activities in Scotland.</p>
<p>The tycoon placed full page adverts in two leading Scottish newspapers on Friday 14 Decemeber, the Courier and the Press and Journal, both owned by DC Thomson.</p>
<p>The adverts feature a photograph of Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and a Californian wind farm, and state that "tourism will suffer" as well as linking this claim to the decision to release the Lockerbie bomber.</p>
<p>Complaints about an earlier advert were upheld, with Trump and anti-wind group CATS warned by the ASA "not to exaggerate the number of turbines likely to be installed or the possible consequences of the Scottish Government's plans to use wind turbines."</p>
<p>Patrick Harvie MSP and co-convener of the Scottish Greens, who are making the latest complaint, said: “Trump has sunk to a new low. Linking renewables policy to Lockerbie victims is sick. Not only did he have no shred of evidence that tourism would suffer when we quizzed him during the parliament's inquiry into renewables, he has already been censured by the authorities for placing similar anti-renewables adverts."</p>
<p>He continued: "Trump’s organisation has already trashed a unique environment on the coast of Aberdeenshire and trampled on the rights of local people. Now he appears to be determined to buy up chunks of the Scottish press. It’s vital that Scotland doesn’t allow a bully to think he can flash his cash and get his own way."</p>
<p>"The Advertising Standards Authority is clear that advertising must be responsible, and must not mislead or offend. If DC Thomson has any sense it'll tell him to take his irresponsible, misleading and offensive business elsewhere," said Mr Harvie.</p>
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Living EconomyNews BriefAlex Salmondlockerbierenewable energyscotlandscottishscottish governmentscottish green partyUK Newswind farmswind turbinesSat, 15 Dec 2012 23:41:09 +0000agency reporter17627 at http://www.ekklesia.co.ukDonald Trump Scottish election meddling officially questionedhttp://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/16465
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<p>Serious concern has been expressed that US property tycoon Donald Trump is set to fund a campaign in the 3 May 2012 Scottish council elections.</p>
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<p>Serious concern has been expressed that US property tycoon Donald Trump is set to fund a campaign in the 3 May 2012 Scottish council elections.</p>
<p>In an interview in Holyrood magazine, the chair of protest group Communities Against Turbines Scotland talks of plans to use substantial funding from Trump. </p>
<p>This overseas donation would go towards a "massive campaign" against Scottish council candidates who have supported wind power developments.</p>
<p>Now the Scottish Green party has referred the matter to the Electoral Commission for investigation.</p>
<p>Patrick Harvie MSP commented: "It’s bad enough that Mr Trump has thrown a hissy fit about the chance that he might be able to see turbines from his golf resort, and has threatened to abuse the planning and legal systems to undermine Scotland’s energy industry. But the possibility that a foreign billionaire will seek to use his wealth to influence the local elections is outrageous."</p>
<p>"This is not America, and our political process is not for sale at any price," he added. </p>
<p>Anti-wind power activists say they plan to make life uncomfortable for politicians, planners and wind power developers, in a national campaign that could see what Holyrood magazine dubbed "an unprecedented single-issue intervention in Scotland’s local elections."</p>
<p>The CATS campaign aims to identify councillors in areas where its member organisations are active that have supported wind turbine development, and target them with “a massive advertising campaign”. </p>
<p>The funding would come from outside Scotland. “This is one of the areas that Donald Trump will help us by doing some advertising,” a spokesperson for CATS revealed. </p>
<p>Environmentalists believe that Trump and his allies will shoot themselves in the foot and alienate many people, but they also express anger at what they see as a blatant overseas attempt to manipulate the election for a sectional interest, a large part of which is outside Scotland.</p>
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Living EconomyNews Briefdonald trumpscottish electionsscottish green partyUK Newswind energywind farmsTue, 27 Mar 2012 15:31:23 +0000staff writers16465 at http://www.ekklesia.co.uk